Essayists Quote by Phillip Lopate

I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.

— Frederick Busch

Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have…

— William Ernest Henley

I do admire great essayists. I'm a particular fan of good nature writing. People like Robert Finch. I read great quantities of writing by…

— Roger Zelazny

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists.

— Jacqueline Susann

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write…

— Jose Saramago

I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists.…

— Alan Lightman

I'll read anything Anne Carson writes, anything J. M. Coetzee writes, and anything Cormac McCarthy writes. I'll drop whatever I'm doing to read a…

— Anthony Doerr

I'm a good essay writer, I know how to write. I was just good at it.

— Benny the Butcher

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

— Jose Saramago

My English teacher, Dr. John Lindstrom, taught me an appreciation for the written word. Until his class, I'd dabbled in journalism and essay writing.…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem involves a certain kind of dramatization…

— Vijay Seshadri

I wasn't a very good writer before college. I don't think I was a very good reader.

— DeRay Mckesson